Colorado has approximately 50 juveniles serving life  without parole (LWOP). Pendulum stays in close  written contact with those young men and women, plus  other youths serving long prison sentences. Because  of our unusual access to offenders and their families,  we can provide comprehensive background data for  researchers documenting the lives of children in adult  prisons.  We continue to receive extensive  international media interest. Radio, television and print  reporters from Germany, Austria, Great Britain and  other industrialized nations have profiled our young  men and women, as well as our organization. In  addition, we’ve received local, regional and national  coverage. The most extensive coverage has been Frontline’s,  WHEN KIDS GET LIFE, a powerful 90 minute  documentary that details the lives of our Colorado  juvenile LWOP. (Accessed through PBS.org/ type in  Frontline)  Thanks to Pendulum’s efforts, Colorado is the only  state that has lowered juvenile LWOP. Currently, no  child can serve more than 40 years without an opportunity for parole. That is far too much time, but it’s a start. We were also instrumental in  the idea behind Colorado’s Juvenile Clemency Board – the first of its kind in the nation.  Currently, several other states are looking to us to help them provide a similar board as an interim step.  Under our lobbying arm, Pendulum  Juvenile Justice, we are working on a 2010 ballot initiative  that would provide sentencing reform for all juveniles in the adult prison system.  Because HB1305, which ended juvenile LWOP, mandates programs for those young men and women who are currently incarcerated, we have  presented to DOC and the governor’s office a cognitive behavior program that would totally transform Colorado’s prison system. That program  would be implemented at NO excess cost to the state and could be replicated in facilities and juvenile systems throughout America. We are  also working to take restorative justice into the prison and to work more closely with victims, whose pain must never be forgotten.  Finally, we are committed to passing HR2289, which would end juvenile LWOP throughout the world. (Since we are the only nation that  sentences children to die in prison, once it is ended in U.S., it will be ended forever.) HR2289 is sponsored by Reps. Bobby Scott and John  Conyers and will be vigorously pursued after the November election. We will also intensely support the current drive to have the United States  ratify the Convention for the Rights of the Child. Currently, only two nations in the entire world have not ratified this treaty. Somalia is the only  other nation that has decided children deserve no rights.  We at the Pendulum Foundation believe that  the only real prison is the prison of the heart.  Our mission is to physically, emotionally and  spiritually free all of our young men and women whose  childhoods have been lost, and who have been thrown away in  Colorado’s prison system.  Copyright © 2002-2011 PendulumFoundation.com. All rights reserved. Read our Terms of Use Home     About us     Resources     Colorado Kids     Parricide Cases     Donate     Take Action     Contact us Established as a non-profit in 2001, Pendulum is dedicated to educating the public about the issue of  children in adult prisons, and in transforming the lives of all those youthful offenders who are currently  behind bars.